Antoine Vestier (1740–1824)

• Was a French miniaturist and painter of portraits.
• He was born at Avallon in Burgundy.
• Vestier trained in the atelier of Jean-Baptiste Pierre.
• He showed his work at the Salon de la Correspondance, Paris, before being admitted to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1785.
• Among his sitters was the royal cabinet-maker, Jean Henri Riesener (1786, Musée de Versailles).

• Vestier was the father of portraitist Marie-Nicole Vestier, wife of miniaturist François Dumont.

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